I am trying to install Nividia drivers on Mandrake
9.1 , but it doesn't work !

I have a PC with a Nvidia Geforce4 MX440 8x, Intel
Pentium4 2.6 GHz

At the end of the installation, all seems to be good
with this message on the screen : "installation ok"
... but it doesn't work !
In fact the installation should install few nvidia*
files in /dev
But the problem is these files are not created !

This problem is mentioned in the readme.txt file of
Nvidia ... but no solution is given !!

enter root in login and enter your password root
run this :
/etc/init.d/dm stop
after run the NVIDIA auto installer
and after all has been completed edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
and replace the line Driver "nv"
by
Driver "nvidia"
in section Device
then run /etc/init.d/dm start and enjoy...

Thank you but ...
Sorry, but I am not sure to understand your message (due to my poor english !).
But, for the moment I don't have installed Mesa.
I juste have installed Mandrake 9.1 (no problem) and I am trying to install these drivers before installing Mesa ... but it doesn't work !
So I think the problem is not due to Mesa.
I wonder if it is possible to install these drivers with this version of Mandrake (downloaded version). May be I need to buy a Mandrake Pack ... but I am not sure it will be sufficient.